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This Feb 5, 2015 photo released by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Wallace Priester, who is serving two life without parole prison sentences for shooting two teens to death when he himself was 15. Now 31, he is one of more than three dozen state inmates eligible for new sentences and a possible shot at release in the wake of Supreme Court decisions banning mandatory life without parole for juveniles. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Jimmy Causey, who authorities had continued to search for Thursday, July 6, 2017, after he escaped from Lieber Correctional Institution maximum-security prison in Ridgeville, S.C. This is the inmate's second escape from a maximum-security prison. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)
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This undated photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Jimmy Causey, who authorities continue to search for Thursday, July 6, 2017, after he escaped from Lieber Correctional Institution maximum-security prison in Ridgeville, S.C. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)
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FILE - This undated file photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Jacob Philip. South Carolina inmate Denver Simmons has said he and another convicted murderer Philip strangled four fellow prisoners in a bid to get the death penalty. Simmons told The Associated Press in a series of telephone calls that he and Philip plotted the April 7 killings at Kirkland Correctional Institution for months. Both men were sentenced to life without parole for double murderers. (South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP, File)
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This booking photo provided by South Carolina Department of Corrections shows Jacob Philip. Two convicts each serving a life sentence for killing a mother and her child have been charged with murder in the strangulation deaths of four inmates inside a South Carolina prison. Arrest warrants say Philip and Denver Simmons lured each inmate into a cell at Kirkland Correctional Institution in Columbia Friday, April 7, 2017. The warrants say the men worked together to choke all four inmates. Two of the victims were also beaten and stabbed with a broken broomstick. ( South Carolina Department of Corrections via AP)
